If you ever dreamed of having your own backyard skatepark, then Leticia Bufoni’s is one you should totally try and copy. From winning some of the best skate competitions in the world to training at home, check out a behind the scenes look into the life of Leticia.
Zion Wright’s LA Skate House Got Flipped Upside Down – Red Bull
Skateboarder Zion Wright shares the craziest stories from the days of living in sketchy share houses in LA.
Rolling Around The Old Carlsbad Skatepark | Official Skatepark Review – Red Bull
Season 2 of Official Skatepark Review continues with Joey Brezinski, Rip & special guests Paul Hart & Carter Oeflein as they explore the Old Carlsbad skatepark.
Take a Trip With Brighton Zeuner In Her MAGIC FROG Video Part
You’ve seen the two-time X Games gold medalist and Vans Park Series champ on top of podiums all over the world, but now here’s a glimpse into the pool missions, park sessions and vert ramp action that shape her signature and timeless style. From Florida to Arizona to California, it’s all sunshine and skateboarding with Brighton Zeuner in her first Red Bull Skateboarding part!
The World Loves Skateboarding | Best Of Red Bull Skateboarding 2020
2020 was a most unusual year, but it will be remembered as one of skateboarding’s most globally successful years.
The reasons for that are many and varied, sometimes overlapping, but a perfect convergence of circumstances saw skate shops around the world unable to meet demand, small brands suddenly able to clear out entire inventories, and uptake – oftentimes re-uptake – of skating worldwide at a level not seen since the headiest days of decades past.
It was at breakfast the morning after Red Bull Skateboarding’s 2020 planning meeting last January that the newspaper headline spoke of a city being locked down far away. It’s doubtful that anyone back then could have foreseen the last 12 months playing out the way they have, but with so many projects already under way globally the race was on to bring them all in – safely, and in whole.
From Patrik Wallner’s pioneering Uzbekistan skate project to contests like Simple Session, Red Bull Solus & Red Bull Bowl Rippers to RAW EDITS with Jamie Foy, CJ Collins & more to introducing the world to Madars Skate Tales to skating Larvikite with Torey Pudwill & crew to exploring the spirit of skateboarding in Africa, 2020 will go down in as an epic year in our history books!
Skating Paradise At Ryan Sheckler’s Private Skate Park | Red Bull Signature Series: Red Bull Sōlus
Ryan Sheckler’s personal playground welcomes top skaters from around the world, each left alone with their own skills and creativity in this unique episode of Red Bull Signature Series. Thirteen of the world’s leading professional skateboarders compete at Ryan Sheckler’s private skate park in the inaugural Red Bull Solus. Each skater is given one hour alone at the SC Sandlot to film their best continuous line for evaluation by a panel of the industry’s top judges.
Pumping It Up at Pacific Highlands | Official Skatepark Review
Season 2 of Official Skatepark Review continues with Joey Brezinski, Rip & special guests Carter Oeflein and Ace Pelka as they explore the Pacific Highlands Skatepark and Pump Track.
How Skateboarding Is Transforming The Lives Of Kenyan Street Youth | SKATE AFRICA Part Two
So, ladies and gentlemen, if you have not already had the pleasure then allow us to introduce you to George Zuko – a candidate for raddest human in the world today. As with Sandy Alibo in Ghana, George has been a talismanic figure in the development of skateboard culture here in Kenya.
How about this: George is a skater who helps run skate camps at an educational orphanage where the country’s first skatepark resides. Think about that for a moment. Children sleeping on the streets are by no means uncommon in Nairobi, and George introduced us to two young rippers who once slept right by the local skate spot – and started skating as a result. With George’s introduction of skating into their lives, The Keedz (‘the pair’) are off the streets, enrolled in school, and ripping.
Samuel Mwangi and Ezra Nyongesa – everyone calls him Balo, though – proved constant companions for Jaakko Ojanen, Chenai Gwandure, Yann Horowitz and Jackson Pilz as our joy bus spent a week rolling around with the skate scene of Nairobi. Sam even shot Balo’s front board photo from this feature on his first try with a camera. Fast learner!
The Shangilia association which runs the educational orphanage space where the radiant skatepark resides work with hundreds of such children every day. Watch Patrik Wallner’s superb documentary on Jaakko and friends’ skate mission with the local rippers of Nairobi above.
Skatepark Turned Board Game – How We Made ‘The Maze’ w/ Madars Apse, Vladik Scholz & Crew
A man ever on the hunt for new challenges and terrains, German ripper Vladik Scholz linked up with master skatepark craftsman Andreas Schutzenberger to roll out a pioneering indoor skatepark project: a hydraulic tilting skatepark labyrinth known as The Maze. Based on the ubiquitous childhood marble game of yore, Schutzi’s 40-ton, 21 sq m skatepark creation is suspended 3m into the air on a series of hydraulic jacks which make the floor slope in any chosen direction – even as you skate it!
Press play to go behind the scenes with Vladik & Andreas to find out how they made this amazing one-of-a-kind skatepark.
Meet The Local Skaters Of Ghana With Jaakko Ojanen & Crew | SKATE AFRICA
Skate scenes in their infancy often have a guiding light, a champion and pioneer who evangelises and develops and agitates at the absolute grassroots level, to try and make things happen for the new people skating hooks every day once they have access to it.
This is happening all over the world right now, and it is the purest version of skateboarding’s promise. As a counterpoint to all the upriver skate activity going on in the world today, wonderful though that doubtless is, shining a light not just on these nascent scenes but the builders of those scenes is a dollop of wholesome radness nobody can have too much of.
So, when South African skate evangelis Yann Horowitz, Chenai Gwandure and Jackson Pilz suggested continuing Red Bull’s drop- ins with the diverse skate scenes throughout the continent by heading to Ghana to meet Sandy Alibo and the Accra skaters, Jaakko Ojanen leapt at the once-in-a-lifetime chance to bring his magic feet to the party. What was created proved to be a pivotal skate happening for the Accra scene; one which will never be forgotten by anyone involved. Absorb Patrik Wallner’s awesome film from the tour up top there, and roll back around in a week’s time as the squad roll into Nairobi, Kenya!
Skaters Dream Board Game: The Maze w/ Vladik Scholz, Madars Apse, Gustavo Ribeiro & Jost Arens
Watch Gustavo Ribeiro, Jost Arens and Madars Apse join Vladik Scholz to rip a hydraulically alive skatepark pursued by a malicious marble in his latest creative skate adventure.
Birdhouse and the “War Rig” | SKATE & CREATE x BEHIND THE TEAMS – Red Bull
Tony Hawk and grand theft auto? This backstage pass to the Birdhouse Skate & Create part is the mashup you didn’t know existed. Red Bull went behind the scenes with the Birdhouse team as they took their WAR RIG van to new levels. Featuring Tony Hawk, Clive Dixon, Shawn Hale, Clint Walker, Eliott Sloan, Lizzie Armanto, David Loy, Ed Duff, and Aaron “Jaws” Homoki.